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Utterly mortified by DD yesterday, i've got to go and face the same people today

75 replies

WalkingDAway · 07/02/2019 08:14

In the mobile phone fixing place. Three men sat around and me and DD 3. I was handing my phone in to be fixed and ticking errands off the list with DD at the same time.

"Right DD so thats the phone done, next we have to go to Tesco and do the shopping ok"

"And we have to wash your sheets mummy 'cause they've got blood EVERYWHERE" (surprise period 2 days early and DD had seen the sheets that morning)

You could have heard a fucking pin drop. I've got to go back and pick my phone up today, genuinely considering just buying a new one ffs Blush

OP posts:
PoshPenny · 07/02/2019 08:17

You know, I'd go without my phone until I could persuade someone else to collect it for me. However long that took!

comedycentral · 07/02/2019 08:18

I'm not sure what the issue is if I'm honest? She didn't say period blood and even if she did most men are cool with it and don't even bat and eyelid. If they do care well that's their issue not yours.

LovingLola · 07/02/2019 08:19

Do you really think they would even care ? Adult men know about periods.

Aridane · 07/02/2019 08:24

They don’t care, why should you (though how excruciating at the time!)

Bezalelle · 07/02/2019 08:32

Periods aren't embarrassing. They're a part of the female reproductive process and should be respected. There's no shame in them.

SuddenlyISee · 07/02/2019 08:34

Sorry I read that as surprise period two days ago and wondered why you still hadn't changed them!

LisaSimpsonsbff · 07/02/2019 08:34

My major concern in your scenario wouldn't be them knowing you have periods, it would be them misunderstanding and thinking you're a murderer.

SparkiePolastri · 07/02/2019 08:35

Pretty embarrassing at the time, but I doubt they'll remember you / the remark when you go back in today.

MrsBertBibby · 07/02/2019 08:36

None of those people would exist if their mothers hadn't menstuated.

Rainatnight · 07/02/2019 08:37

Ha ha poor you!

DD, 2.5, announced recently 'Mama, you've got hair on your BUM', and I'm dreading the inevitable day she says it in public.

Isadora2007 · 07/02/2019 08:38

I don’t think they’d care. Or remember.
If- and it’s a big if- anyone did say anything smart you could just quip “yep- cleaned the sheets AND disposed of the body...busy busy!”

cocodash · 07/02/2019 08:39

@isadora2007 hahahahaha love that response!!! actual LOL'd

PurplePepperEater · 07/02/2019 08:40

Omg I so hope they remember so you can say what Isadora suggested Grin

SoupDragon · 07/02/2019 08:43

“yep- cleaned the sheets AND disposed of the body...busy busy!”

That's what I thought! 😂

ChilliMum · 07/02/2019 08:48

With à 3 year old you are best off fronting it out it will be good practice for the future as it won't be the last time Grin

I once left dd at a table in a coffee shop with my handbag while I went to the counter to order our drinks. By the time I came back she had taken the pack of sanitary towels out of my bag and was offering around the cafe as pretty pink coasters Blush

Nowhere near as humiliating as the time she professed loudly in a store toilet that the woman in the next cubicle was definitely having a poo as she heard it plop and it smells really bad (this time we did stay in the cubicle until the poor woman had left).

Ds told his nursery teacher we made ganja cookies (gingerbread).

There have been many many many others.

Bluesheep8 · 07/02/2019 08:56

They won't even remember op. What a 3 year old said days ago won't be that important to them. And I am the queen of over thinking!

Bluesheep8 · 07/02/2019 08:57

Sorry just read it was yesterday. They still won't remember.

CockleburIck · 07/02/2019 08:58

Ds told his nursery teacher we made ganja cookies 😂

I used to be an early years teacher, and some of the things the children said about their parents/family (that were actually true) were no better. You won’t believe the juicy secrets children announce in class discussions!

Patroclus · 07/02/2019 09:15

I dont think people would think twice about it

Hoppinggreen · 07/02/2019 09:16

I had a workman (young lad) round yesterday to fit skirting boards and do a couple of other things. Didn’t realise he would have to go into our ensuite.
I followed him in as he tripped over the bin and knocked everything flying, which was mostly lightly soiled Tena pads . He bent down to help me pick things up as I yelled “leave it” and he looked at the pads and then back at me with horror in his eyes. I tried to sweep them to one side with my foot but of course they are adhesive so just stuck to the floor.
I guess I’m living with no skirting boards now as I can NEVER have him back

Dungeondragon15 · 07/02/2019 09:17

It wouldn't bother me at all.
Anway, would it necessarily occur to them that it was period blood? They are either used to that kind of issue from their own wives or daughters (so not embarassing)or they might think you killed someone!

FortunesFave · 07/02/2019 09:22

I just couldn't get embarrassed by that. It's a period. They happen. Not like you shat the bed.

wanderings · 07/02/2019 09:23

Ds told his nursery teacher we made ganja cookies
Aged 9, I wrote a story at school with a character called "Mr Ganga". Little did I know! I bet lots of children in the class did. The teacher even read this story out to the class!

TheJobNeverEnded · 07/02/2019 09:25

My friend's husband used to wear a pair of red pants over his jeans at home and pretend to be superman complete with superman t-shirt.

My friend took her 3 year old DD into the toilets with her in a shopping centre and just happened to be wearing red knickers, cue her DD asking loudly "Mummy, why are you wearing Daddy's pants?" her then saying that she was wearing her own pants only to have the 3 year old getting even louder declaring, "no, they're Daddy's pants, why have you got Daddy's pants on."

Mortifying. Grin

SchadenfreudePersonified · 07/02/2019 09:29

Well at about the same age my DD accused a bloke in a lift of farting (he had - silent but deadly), so I feel your pain.